Posted on 6/10/2003, 5:06:00 PM by johnqueuepublic
Radical Hispanic Agenda Driving California Legislation
By William A. Mayer
While it is often claimed that hindsight is 20 -20, from the looks of what is going on in California’s legislature, it’s clear that the lessons of September 11 have largely been wasted, having had little effect on the majority party’s acute myopia.
Despite the war on terror and a projected budget deficit possibly as high as $38 billion, Sacramento’s increasingly radicalized Democrat dominated legislature is pressing forward – once again – this time with Senate Bill 60 (and it’s companion, Assembly Bill 118) which will enable the state’s estimated 2 million illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses without presenting a valid Social Security number.
Enraging party activists statewide, Davis vetoed similar legislation [which he had earlier promised to sign] in October of 2002, just weeks before his narrow victory in the California governor’s race.
If signed this time around, the most obvious budgetary impact of this legislation will be the loss of a huge amount of revenue (legislative analysis - “...loss of up to $600 million in Federal child support funds...”) for the cash strapped state, but far more dangerous, it creates a seemingly open invitation - for those intent on forging phony identities - to do their document shopping in a terrorist-friendly environment.
Sifting trough the 9 -11 wreckage, one fact looms large – at least 8 of the 19 terrorists obtained their official identification via a loophole in the state of Virginia’s Department of Motor Vehicles code that allowed applicants to receive a driver's license merely upon presentation of minimal paperwork none of which was tied to a unique indentifier such as a Social Security number.
“After September 11, use of fake IDs is no longer just a teenage trick or merely about drunk drivers trying to hide their bad driving records. It is about our national security," Senator Richard Durbin. (D – IL)
The Virginia loophole was recently slammed shut by the Republican led legislature and reluctantly signed into law by Governor Mark Warner (D).
But in California clear thinking is not a pre-requisite for high political office, as a matter of fact it may actually be a hindrance to career advancement.
From outside the state, the move to revisit this subject is totally inexplicable - except when viewed in the light of rapidly changing demographics [California is now about one-third Hispanic - primarily Mexican] and an odious brand of racial politics practiced by former leftist campus radicals such as Senator Gilbert Cedillo (D. 22nd District - Los Angeles) who authored this bill and Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, one of the bill's primary cheerleaders.
Bustamante incredibly and straightforwardly supports continued illegal immigration - “my district requires it.”
Background
Like the former Speaker of the Assembly, Antonio Villaraigosa, Cedillo and Bustamante were both members of college chapters of the semi-underground “Latino Power” group called MEChA - Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán.
If it were a white group, its members would be termed racial supremacists by the entrenched media.
And that characterization would be correct.
MEChA members [MEChistas] refer to California and the greater Southwest as Aztlán - a mythical Aztec empire - and their plans regarding it are grandiose. They argue that Aztlán was illegally taken from the Hispanic people - regardless of what the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo says – and that La Raza [literally The Race] must reclaim the territory, using force if necessary.
“In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal "gringo" invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlán from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth…Aztlán belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. We do not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent… our brothers makes us a people whose time has come and who struggles against the foreigner "gabacho" who exploits our riches and destroys our culture. With our heart in our hands and our hands in the soil, we declare the independence of our mestizo nation. We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlán.” El Plan de Espiritual de Aztlán, the charter document upon which MEChA is based.
Confusion among MEChA disciples seems to abound since technically - if their claims are true - “Aztlán” should be returned not to Mexico but to Spain, since California’s original exploration and partial colonization was undertaken by them.
But attention to such nettlesome detail tends to dampen political ardor, the stoking of which is precisely what this movement is all about.
This primarily college based movement has another thing to contend with, given its obvious racialist leanings; it has to contend with some pretty bigoted adherents whose writings seem chillingly familiar to anyone who has studied post Weimar Republic German political movements.
Much of the literature surrounding MEChA is not only virulently anti-Anglo, ethnocentric and calculatedly antagonistic it is also anti-Semitic, which can be gleaned from constant references to "evil Zionists" which dot their literature.
From a Voz De Aztlán Editorial, a prominent mouthpiece for MEChA:
“The signs were first manifested during the state's 1998 election primary when a Mexicano defeated the Jewish candidate Richard Katz…when the wealthy Jew, Ron Unz, was successful in having an anti-bilingual education initiative approved by the state's electorate…La Raza's battle for the 20th Senate District is a perfect example of how the Jews will fight tooth and nail to maintain their dominance in state government…The Jews of California, about 3% of the state's population, have an overwhelming and disproportionate share of the state's wealth…there is no sector of California society, either private or public, in which Jews are not significant policy makers… purchase of influence as well as the cunning manipulation of ethnic and other minorities…Zionist Ron Unz is a wealthy Jew."
So we have California legislators, with documented extremist political roots, pimping for a 2 million strong alien invasion, which – if legitimized through some bone headed gesture of faux compassion by the Bush administration - will make the most extreme faction of the Democrat party the governing force in this state as far into the future as one dare look.
More importantly it will take the then Bronze State a substantial way down the road towards the MEChA Holy Grail of outright seizure of the Southwest.
SB 60 which was approved on a 24 – 14 vote [the California Senate is comprised of 25 Democrats and 15 Republicans] on June 4, and the companion legislation in the Assembly – AB 118 authored by Dario Fromer (D. Glendale-Burbank 43rd District) is up for consideration by the Assembly Judiciary Committee on June 10. If passed it will overturn the prudent 1993 legislation signed by Republican governor, Pete Wilson, which made the presentation of a valid Social Security number mandatory to receive a driver’s license.
The supporters of this and similar legislation [such as recently enacted AB 540 which – un self-consciously - gives illegal aliens the right to attend the University of California at the same tuition fees that California citizens pay – an $11,000 discount from the out of state fee structure] is driven by the same immoderate forces who have created a mini-empire out of alleged concern for the ethnic poor:
Extreme Hispanic pressure groups - LULAC, MALDEF, La Raza, United Farm Workers Union & the Central American Resource Center.
- Radical lefty political groups – ACLU, California Immigrant Welfare Collaboration & California Rural Legal Assistance.
- Fat-cat run labor groups - Cal Labor Federation, Santa Clara Building & Trades Commission, the SEIU, United Food & the Commercial Workers Union.
Of course no radical social movement is complete in California without the official imprimatur of California Catholic Conference, as if they don’t have enough on their own plate right now to contend with.
The foregoing suggests a much larger issue – whether the concept of cultural assimilation any longer has relevance - the radicals soundly reject it, gambling instead on rising numbers and Caucasian displacement to carry the day and the tale of rapidly changing demographics bear the strategy out.
According to the 2000 census, approximately 33% of California’s 33+ million total population are Hispanic Of that number, approximately 2 million are illegals, mainly from Mexico. Since 1990 the Hispanic portion of the population has grown from one-quarter to fully one-third of the total population.
40% of Californians do not speak English at home.
Over 15% of the State Prison and 25% of the Federal Prison populations are illegal aliens. Of these over 60% avoid - as statutorily mandated - deportation when their terms have been served.
State provision of services have been crafted via legislation, the long arm of activist liberal jurists and pressure groups to be channeled directly to this illegal shadow constituency, which conservatively drains state coffers to the tune of at least $3 billion a year.
The situation is so dire that even traditional liberal apologists are starting to make sense. A case in point - commentators on California's transformational politics are ubiquitous, but few cut to the heart of the matter as did Los Angeles Times Associate Editor Frank Del Olmo.
"..back in the 1970s. That's when Southern California's population began the tectonic population shift we now take for granted. That's when older, mostly Anglo residents started moving out while younger, mostly Latino residents were moving in...the city has changed and is going to keep changing, no matter how much older residents may rail - or vote - against it...The old Los Angeles can only hope that when political change comes, it will come in the form of an inclusive and flexible candidate like Villaraigosa. The alternatives to him are a lot more nationalistic about their Latino identity and will be a whole lot tougher to deal with when the time comes....As it will." June 3, 2001
Reading between the lines, it seems that the best that the pessimistic Olmo hopes to salvage from this state of affairs is to somehow blunt a foreign based insurrection.
Editor’s Note : The characterization of Villaraigosa as moderate and inclusive is preposterous on its face. Vallaraigosa was the director of the UCLA chapter of MEChA and a former board member of the ACLU of Southern California. His stint as Speaker of the California Assembly was divisive and his narrowly losing effort to become Los Angeles’ first Hispanic mayor was fractious to say the least. Villaraigossa also distinguished himself by joining in the successful effort to convince Bill Clinton to pardon convicted cocaine kingpin Carlos Vignali, who served only 6 of 14 years due to this intercession.
The bitter reality is that the politicians who are fanning the Hispanic flame, in pursuit of increased dominion, have betrayed the welfare of the very people whose interests they supposedly steward.
Poorly educated - more often than not barely literate in their native tongue - relying mainly on a strong back and the sweat of their brows, the majority of illegals resemble used up husks as they approach middle age. In many ways the Cedillos, the Bustamantes and the white liberals are worse than the “coyotes” who pray on these wretched dreamers as they are smuggled across the border like loads of cordwood, because they know better and in the final analysis it is their legislation which guarantees the continuation of the cycle of poverty and despair.
“A Mexican male who may be 50 often looks 60 and walks as if he is 70…Quite simply, the last thing America wants is a Spanish-speaking man 50 years old with dependents but no skills and a bad back…he is bitter rather than upbeat; his romance with America is now more like a nightmare. He can become a baleful influence on his numerous kids, who hear of doubt and anger, not of retirement accounts and a vacation home in the mountains. If we wonder why the hardest-working alien in California sires sons who will not do the same kind of labor, who have tattoos, shaved heads, and prison records rather than diplomas, we need look no further than the bitterness of the exhausted, poor and discontented father.” Victor Davis Hanson - The Universe of the Illegal - June, 2003
The here and now
And it is discontentment indeed that reigns supreme as SB 60 and AB 118 inevitably make their way towards the desk of Gray Davis, profoundly testing him in the middle of a grassroots recall drive that has already gathered about half of the required signatures to hold a special election, which will determine his political fate.
Will Davis hold firm and veto the legislation noting - as he did only last October - that “the tragedy of Sept. 11 made it abundantly clear that the driver's license is more than just a license to drive; it is one of the primary documents we use to identify ourselves" or will he play to his base, hoping to defeat the recall attempt by going hard-left in the special election?
In the long run the question is moot, Cedillo and others have been pursuing this and related issues for 5 years now and are not about to take no for an answer. They clearly see events turning in their direction and know that this legislation is destined for eventual passage and signing into law, barring unforeseen complications.
That will only be the start, the floodgates will open.
The reality is that regardless of national trends, unless the GOP finds a spine, California will one day soon have a largely foreign born population and be governed as a one party gulag.
The state will, for a time, remain economically powerful but the social burden it will have to bear will preclude it from ever attaining the greatness it once promised. It will then by necessity sink into mediocrity - like a dwarf star – spent and out of fuel.
The sector of the population which drives job creation will initially retract and then eventually retreat to saner climes, under the relentless pressure of increasing taxes and social legislation necessary to satisfy the demands of those who represent what Olmo referred to in his editorial, the “tectonic population shift.”
Increases in income taxes, fees and special district assessments are already being enacted to partially close the budgetary shortfall generated by profligate governmental spending undertaken to appease key political constituencies. Soon enough, proposition 13 will be overturned; it's only a matter of time. That action will have the effect of a stake through the heart of the middle-class, especially older homeowners.
And standing between the status quo and this dire scenario?
15 Republican State Senators and a smaller handful in the Assembly, who are, to their credit, for the most part holding firm - but they can't do it forever, the forces arrayed against them are too great – so they are resigned to fighting a daily holding action until either the national party responds or they tire of the affair and capitulate.
Given the current state of the war on terror the national party could reasonably attempt to halt all immigration as a way of getting at the real problem, illegal immigration.
Enforcement of such a plan would absolutely require troops on the border alongside the beleaguered US Border Patrol and given the dicey state of race relations is probably beyond the will of the current administration, yet nothing less severe has any possibility of working because the influx of illegals across essentially non-existent border security is uncontrolled at this point and will remain so unless something bold is done.
The solution is obvious, but alas...the flesh is weak.
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Cedillo and Bustamante are typical racists. Are they care about is helping their fellow Latinos, regardless of whether their fellow Latinos are in the US legally. The more brown the state of California becomes, the happier Cedillo and Bustamante are.
What we're really seeing here is the third-worldization of our largest and richest state. A ridiculously large growth in the population of an undereducated and low-income minority, which naturally tends to socialistic political beliefs, that will, in time, cause the decimation of California's economy through socialist policies resulting from the political domination of a radicalized Democrat Party -- a domination made possible almost soley by the ever increasing political clout of this constituency.
I'm sure they're great people, but they could do an awful lot of damage.
I believe this answers your question. The recalleffort is the perfect vehicle for helping Davis remain properly cowed.
The best part about it is that there is no period thereafter (prior to an innaguration) for him to poison the well. If he loses the election, he is out that day.
Lovely country we live in.
Let's take it back.
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